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02/24/2004: "Spammed Out?"

I don't know about you, but my delete key is wearing out. If you have your email address displayed on a web page, then here is some javascript that will help you slow the spammers down a little. What it does is create your email link when your page loads, providing no email address for spam crawlers to harvest. I don't know how smart these crawlers have become, so I have used silly variable names, an "%40" instead of the typical "@" sign, and spread the relevant components around a little. This may be a little paranoid, but as I said, my delete key... Click more... below to see the code.

Sorry, I can't seem to keep the javascript from being treated as input to my post's HTML page. I'll do a little research, and put it up as soon as I can.

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